Living Underground - Hardcover

Kempe, David

 
9780906969861: Living Underground
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0906969867 ISBN 13: 9780906969861
Verlag: Herbert Press Ltd, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Caves are the most universal form of human dwelling. This survey covers troglodytes and other cave dwellers, the physical origins of caves and the various uses made of rock shelters by man, both ancient and modern throughout the world. The story stretches from the Stone Age , three hundred million years ago, to modern times, examining many, now lost, cultures. The author looks at the varied, and sometimes bizarre, ways in which underground cavities have been exploited: from mushroom growing to guano gathering; from wine vaults to cabinet War Rooms in London and underground burrows used by Japanese soldiers in Iwo Jima during World War II. David Kempe is also the co-editor of "The Petrology of Archeological Artefacts" (Oxford University Press, 1983).

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Caves are the most universal form of human dwelling. This survey covers troglodytes and other cave dwellers, the physical origins of caves and the various uses made of rock shelters by man, both ancient and modern throughout the world. The story stretches from the Stone Age , three hundred million years ago, to modern times, examining many, now lost, cultures. The author looks at the varied, and sometimes bizarre, ways in which underground cavities have been exploited: from mushroom growing to guano gathering; from wine vaults to cabinet War Rooms in London and underground burrows used by Japanese soldiers in Iwo Jima during World War II. David Kempe is also the co-editor of "The Petrology of Archeological Artefacts" (Oxford University Press, 1983).

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Verlag
Herbert Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0906969867
ISBN 13 
9780906969861
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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